Introduction
John Joseph Adams
This Year’s Class Picture
Dan Simmons
Some Zombie Contingency Plans
Kelly Link
Death and Suffrage
Dale Bailey
Ghost Dance
Sherman Alexie
Blossom
David J. Schow
The Third Dead Body
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
The Dead
Michael Swanwick
The Dead Kid
Darrell Schweitzer
Malthusian’s Zombie
Jeffrey Ford
Beautiful Stuff
Susan Palwick
Sex, Death and Starshine
Clive Barker
Stockholm Syndrome
David Tallerman
Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead
Joe Hill
Those Who Seek Forgiveness
Laurell K. Hamilton
In Beauty, Like the Night
Norman Partridge
Prairie
Brian Evenson
Everything is Better With Zombies
Hannah Wolf Bowen
Home Delivery
Stephen King
Less Than Zombie
Douglas E. Winter
Sparks Fly Upward
Lisa Morton
Meathouse Man
George R. R. Martin
Deadman’s Road
Joe R. Lansdale
The Skull-Faced Boy
David Barr Kirtley
The Age of Sorrow
Nancy Kilpatrick
Bitter Grounds
Neil Gaiman
She’s Taking Her Tits to the Grave
Catherine Cheek
Dead Like Me
Adam-Troy Castro
Zora and the Zombie
Andy Duncan
Calcutta, Lord of Nerves
Poppy Z. Brite
Followed
Will McIntosh
The Song the Zombie Sang
Harlan Ellison® and Robert Silverberg
Passion Play
Nancy Holder
Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man
Scott Edelman
How the Day Runs Down
John Langan